Anatel Communications and VoiceAge Offer a Unique Solution for the Emerging Voice Portal Market.Business/Technology Editors PEABODY, Mass. & MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000 VoiceAge Corporation and Anatel Communications today announced the terms of a partnership agreement that allows users to take advantage of the VoiceAge Voice Shuttle(TM) voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc. software when combined with Anatel's high port count DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive resource modules and systems. As a result, users can rapidly integrate applications such as voice mail over email to existing PC-based platforms or deploy voice portal gateways using Anatel's Media Bearer media gateways. Commenting, Terry Shugart, Director of Sales for Anatel said, "We are confident that this partnership will play a significant role in increasing our customers' market share by allowing them to offer a competitive advantage in the increasing Unified Messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. equipment market, which is expected to reach $1.2 billion by 2006." Laurent Amar, Vice President of Business Development at VoiceAge, noted that, "Uniting the technology assets of Voice Shuttle with those of Anatel will most certainly trigger massive interest in the market. The uniqueness of the product, coupled with Anatel's competitive hardware offerings will ensure that we both benefit from the booming voice portal industry." Based on Anatel's TAP 806 resource products and media gateways, Voice Shuttle delivers up to 72 channels of compressed audio per resource, using coders compatible with standard PC- based Media players. This allows for a high port count scaling solution for message recording at unsurpassed quality. In addition, recordings encoded by Voice Shuttle can be played without user intervention on any Windows-based platform. About Anatel Communications Anatel Communications, an Analogic Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ALOG ALOG Army Logistician (Magazine) ALOG Army Logistics ALOG Activity Log ALOG AWIS Logistics ), designs, manufactures and markets CPCI See CompactPCI. , PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. Voice over IP DSP resource boards; T1/E1 and DS-3 network access boards; Media Gateway development systems; and associated software for the Internet Telecommunications market. For more information about Anatel Communications, visit www.anatel.net. About VoiceAge Corporation, www.voiceage.com Located in Montreal, Canada, VoiceAge has quickly established an outstanding reputation in the realm of both standardized and proprietary voice and audio compression solutions at low-bit-rate applied to voice portals, PAD, Unified messaging, VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a and mobile communications sectors. VoiceAge's primary focus is to accentuate its leadership in developing and commercializing top-of-the-line innovative narrow and wideband telecommunications solutions. VoiceAge is able to build on the widespread availability of ACELP ACELP Algebraic Code-Excited Linear Prediction ACELP Association Canadienne des Ecoles de Langues Privées ACELP Adaptive Code Excited Linear Prediction ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Predictive (R) based proprietary products, integrated into more than 240 million PCs worldwide, notably through RealPlayer(R) and Microsoft Windows Media(R) Player. On the telephony front, more than 450 million cellular telephones have built-in ACELP standard-based technology. Since its inception in 1999, VoiceAge has built its corporate image around the reputation and know-how of its initial partners, Sipro Lab Telecom Inc, better known for its technology brokerage capabilities, and the Speech and Audio Compression Research Group of Universite de Sherbrooke, inventors of the ACELP technology. Both of these entities were directly involved in the development of eight internationally recognized speech compression telecommunications standards such as G.729 (ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. ), G.723.1 (ITU), wireless 2G and 3G. About Voice Shuttle(TM) Voice Shuttle is the first scalable voice compression product to process and bridge large volumes of vocal traffic, from and to the Internet, using standard telephony hardware. Furthermore, its core attributes also permit it to maintain optimal audio quality based on established Internet standards and formats, which in turn maximize interoperability. Voice Shuttle takes the web experience to unprecedented heights by allowing any user to generate content via a standard telephone and to play back content on demand. This new function, in the hands of service providers and integrators, will lend a new dimension to a broad range of emerging services within Voice Portals that were technologically unthinkable until Voice Shuttle came along. All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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